Guardian: BP BP boss Bob Dudley draws a line under ‘traumatic’ period BP dividend will remain permanently at lower levels BP’s dividend will not be restored to pre-Gulf spill levels when it resumes its payout to shareholders and is expected to remain permanently lower. The company suspended its $10bn (£6.25bn) annual dividend, which had accounted for 12% of all shareholder payouts by British companies, in June at the peak of the crisis over the Gulf of Mexico spill. Today, finance director Byron Grote…